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I'm trying to use album_art_manager, however it only seems to work for embedded art. The documentation states

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//! The main difference between using album_art_manager_instance and calling album_art_extractor methods directly is that //! album_art_manager_instance will fall back to returning pictures found in the folder containing the specified media file//! in case requested album art entries can't be extracted from the media file itself.

So I'd expect the query method to return cover art read from a file matching one of the search patterns set on Preferences/Display.My code basically looks like this:

The query call only succeeds for embedded cover art, exception_album_art_not_found is thrown otherwise. External cover art is displayed correctly in foobar's album art viewer, though. Moreover, query_stub_image does return the stub image set in the preferences.